Series
Building a Body
Multicellular organisms evolved over millennia into a dazzling array of differently adapted creatures. With each generation, tiny worms, lavishly plumed birds, and even humans must create themselves anew from a single cell. To do so, they require a plan. This multimedia story collection explores the myriad of ways in which an organism's development is orchestrated. Click the links below to read and watch.
![Four lab animals — a fly, a plant, a planarian and a zebra fish — wear hardhats and look at blueprints.](/sites/default/files/styles/ct_series_default/public/2022-07/Whitehead_Main%20Illo.jpg?itok=Kxb5Lmd1)
Multimedia stories